This year saw exciting times in Belgium
The country as we know it created
Breaking away with its revolution
From the United Netherlands which had
Been put together by various allied
Victors over France as a buffer zone
Against it. This didn't work - united
It wasn't, for it contained Francophone
Catholics in the south, known as Walloons
As well as Flemish Catholics, hard done
By, they felt generally dominated
By those northern Dutch Calvinists, and groaned
Under William the First, but now had come
In 1830 to their own statehood
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